Alright guys, so this is my Nerd Octax Gamma.
So I've had this one running for a while now, and it's sitting at around 10 terahash,
just quietly running in the background.
Now before anyone asks the obvious question, yes, I'm going to talk about profitability.
At current difficulty in price, this thing is maybe making 30 to 40 cents worth of bitcoin
per day, and depending on your electricity rate, you're likely spending more than that
to run it.
So yeah, on paper, it's losing money, and that's usually where most people stop thinking
about getting one.
But here's where it gets interesting.
Performance wise, it's doing exactly what it should.
It has a stable hash rate, there aren't any weird drops, the temperatures are controlled,
and it doesn't even throttle or crash.
The spec sheet says somewhere around 160 to 180 watts, but when you measure at the wall,
which you always should, I'm seeing closer to 205, sometimes 210, and that's perfectly
normal.
Now from a hardware standpoint, it's solid.
The cooling is well thought out and the fans are barely noticeable.
The power connector design is also very good, it's much better than the old barrel connectors
that used to get hot.
The setup is also very simple, connecting it to wifi was easy, and it just feels like
something you can plug in and let it run without constantly worrying about it.
But honestly, none of that is the reason people end up loving these things.
At the end of the day, this thing is basically a lottery ticket that never expires.
Every 10 minutes somewhere in the world, a bitcoin block gets mined.
With almost 10 Tera hash, your odds are small but they're not impossible.
And if it hits just once, everything changes.
Some people are okay with paying a small and predictable daily cost just to stay open to
that possibility.
And honestly, at some point this just becomes a passion project.
People start with one just to experiment, then they start paying attention to things
like uptime, efficiency, probability.
And then you start thinking well what happens if I get another Not because it guaranteed money but because it just hard not to But for me the deeper reason isn even the block reward it participation When you run one of these at home especially if you running it through your own node you
not just speculating, you're contributing hash power, you're validating, you're helping
secure the network. Bitcoin isn't secure because someone says it is, it's secure because hash
power is distributed. And when more of it lives in homes rather than giant operations,
the network becomes harder to control. One small miner doesn't move the global
hash rate needle much, but thousands of them do, and that increases decentralization of
the network. There's also something else that happens that people don't talk about
enough. You learn. Once you start mining, you stop being a spectator watching the price
charts. You start paying attention to blocks, fees, latency, difficulty adjustments, all
these little details, and then you understand how the system actually works. You go from
From simply being a consumer to being a participant.
And that shift is powerful.
Now like I said, it doesn't earn much.
But you're basically spending a little bit consistently for the chance at something big.
One block today is worth a couple hundred thousand dollars.
Although the probability is low, the payoff is huge.
And if that tradeoff doesn't make sense to you, that's fine.
This isn't for everyone.
It's not for someone who needs guaranteed yield.
It's for someone who understands sovereignty and participation.
So realistically, you might run this thing for years and never hit a block.
That's very possible.
And you have to be okay with that.
But daily profit isn't the only way to measure something.
People run this for the upside because they care about strengthening the network or just
being hands-on and running their own infrastructure.
So that's my take on the Nerdoc Tax Gamma.
If this is something you want to experiment with, there's a link below with a 10% discount
code.
And if you want to make sure it's configured, especially if you're running it through your
own node, the team at the Bitcoin Way can guide you through it step by step.
Thank you.